SpinRite 6.0

[Dr Mordrid]

Remember a while back I posted abouit a drive that was screweed up by Norton DiskDoctor ( ) with important data on it?

Thought I'd lost it all, but recently I got a copy of SpinRite 6.0 by Gibson Research. Spinrite 6.0 is a new version of this data recovery tool that now supports NTFS, Linux, Novell etc.

I put the dead duck in a removable caddy, plugged it in and ran SpinRite 6.0's data recovery feature on it. Guess what? I GOT ALL THE DATA BACK!!

Needless to say I'm a very happy camper

http://grc.com/spinrite.htm

Dr. Mordrid

[Sasq]

thanks for the heads up, i used spinrite for years until I moved to ntfs.

Good to know they finially released a compatable version

[RhinoZ]

Ya that's great news about spinrite, Thanks Dr.

[gt40]

Got my spinrite 5.0 a while back, loved it.
I was wondering when he would release an up to date version

edit: just a comment - It's amazing what the man can pack into a small exe file. (he codes only in assemly)

[DirtFarmer]

Glad to hear you got your data back, Doc. Thanks for the heads up. We've used Spinrite for years, but less lately since NTFS and the huge hard drives. Spinrite 5 would take days on a 30 GB Partition and customers normally have zero for patience. I'll have to run and get an upgrade.

[cjolley]

Poke around on his site for an example of coding for windows in ASM.
Realy cool, and not as wordy as you might think it would need to be.
Chuck

[Kurt]

Re: SpinRite 6.0

Originally posted by Dr Mordrid
Remember a while back I posted abouit a drive that was screweed up by Norton DiskDoctor ( ) with important data on it?

Thought I'd lost it all, but recently I got a copy of SpinRite 6.0 by Gibson Research. Spinrite 6.0 is a new version of this data recovery tool that now supports NTFS, Linux, Novell etc.

I put the dead duck in a removable caddy, plugged it in and ran SpinRite 6.0's data recovery feature on it. Guess what? I GOT ALL THE DATA BACK!!

Needless to say I'm a very happy camper

http://grc.com/spinrite.htm

Dr. Mordrid

About time they support NTFS. When Win XP came out I had asked them when they would release a new version for NTFS. They said "never" as it would require a rewrite (!). Suckers.

Spinrite 5.0 was a very good product, I can't believe they wouldn't include support for NTFS until 2004...anywayz...

[spadnos]

Awesome!!

This is the one major tool that hasn't been usable for me in the past few years.

I guess I can try to resurrect the IBM Deathstar drives I have.

- Steve

[Taz]

It is a cool utility, I used to use it back in the MFM/RLL days

[Byock]

MFM?? *makes a sign to ward off evil*

[spadnos]

ST506, baby!

Yes, and who hasn't taken their old 10M MFM drive, attached it to an RLL controller, and gotten a whole EXTRA 5 MEG on it!!

WooHoo!!!!

Those were the days
- Steve

(actually, I had a 30M drive that I got up to 50M with an RLL controller)

[cjolley]

Originally posted by spadnos
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Yes, and who hasn't taken their old 10M MFM drive, attached it to an RLL controller, and gotten a whole EXTRA 5 MEG on it!!

Now you tell me?
chuck

[Paddy]

cool - how does it work?

[spadnos]

Originally posted by Paddy
cool - how does it work?

How does what work?

[Kurt]

10+5 MB?